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    VESSEL NAME:   Andaste
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   106926
    DATE OF LOSS:  9 September 1929
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, enroute from Grand Haven to Chicago
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, "monitor" type, semi-whaleback
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       Cleveland Ship Building Co., 1892
    OWNER(S):      Leatham Smith - Cliffs Co.
    MASTER:        Capt. Albert L. Anderson
    TONNAGE:       1,439 gt
    LENGTH:        246.75 ft.
    BEAM:           38 ft.
    DEPTH:          17.75 ft.
    CASUALTIES:     25
    SURVIVORS:       0

               Built for the Lake Superior Iron Company.

               At launch measured 266.75x33x23 of 1573 gt.  She was
            converted to a self unloader and shortened in 1921, at
            the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit, MI., giving the
            measurements above at time of loss.

               Under charter to the Construction Materials Company of
             Chicago was lost with all hands during a strong gale while
             enroute to that place from Grand Haven, Michigan, loaded with
             gravel.  The Construction Matierials Company came under harsh
             criticism  when they failed to report the Andaste as missing
             until she was 24 hours overdue. 

               As of this date the Andaste remains missing.


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Sources: Buffalo Enquirer, 1 April 1892
         Merchant Vessel List, 1903
         The American Marine Engineer, Vol. 16, 1921
         The Marine Review, Vol. 51, 1921
         Niagara Falls Gazette, 13 September 1929
         Schenectady Gazette, 25 September 1929
         Boyer, Dwight "Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes"